Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 14, 2011

A political organization that conducts public purges and accuses dissidents of suffering from mental disorders is clearly a totalitarian cult. The so-called Young Americans for Freedom (or YAF) displayed that totalitarian mindset by purging Representative Ron Paul from its board ? just minutes after the Texas Republican had won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

"Rep. Paul is clearly off his meds and must be purged from public office,? sneered YAF director Jordan Marks. ?YAF is starting the process by removing him from our national advisory board.?

Rep. Paul is seen as a heretic by YAF because of his opposition to the patently unconstitutional and economically destructive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

Marks, a soft-handed Beltway lobbyist, accused Paul ? an Air Force veteran ? of something akin to ?treason? for his insistence that the military be used only in constitutionally appropriate wars of national defense. YAF?s version of conservatism requires allegiance to the military-industrial complex, not the U.S. Constitution.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.